The Connected Educator: Why Collaboration Is Key in Distance, Blended, and Classroom Learning

Rick currently manages RMIT’s Equitable Learning Services and has initiated many successful innovations in partnership with University stakeholders, staff and students including implementation of new databases enhancing the end to end service experience to students, the creation of five changing places facilities located throughout RMIT University Melbourne campuses, implementation Ally to help CANVAS learning management system be more inclusive and accessible to all including students would print disability.

Collecting accurate, secure student enrollment data can be cumbersome, and manual processes often lead to errors, frustrated parents and staff, and little insight into upcoming class sizes and hiring needs. In this webinar, you’ll hear how Teton County School District #1 used PowerSchool Unified Administration™ Enrollment, seamlessly integrated with their PowerSchool SIS, and reduced time spent enrolling students by 60%. “We went from always having to follow up with parents to a huge time savings advantage for everyone,” said Kim Byrne, District SIS Administrator. “The product is a joy to use.”

Join us for a webinar that examines the massive expansion in the use of laptops and digital curricula in K-12 education. We will take a hard look at the pros and cons of integrating regular use of new technologies into classrooms and provide a sobering assessment of what will happen if school districts don't start putting in place strategies for how they plan to pay for 1-to-1 computing programs in the years ahead. This webinar will also feature exclusive survey data from educators about the use of laptops in instruction and provide tips for how to make technology work better in schools.

The library makerspace is emerging as a powerful vehicle for increasing library visibility and value to the student community. In this session, Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, and Donna Burns, Technology Integrator, of New Canaan High School in Connecticut, feature how reorganization and materials selection helped one learning community fully embrace “making” across disciplines and grade levels.Participants can expect to learn strategies that will grow maker culture. This session is of particular benefit to K-12 librarians, teachers, and administrators, and is designed to empower educators to lead transformational learning through making regardless of where they are on the maker continuum.